Wordsworth

For my final Wordsworth, readers were asked to provide examples of palindromes – words, phrases or other sequences of characters that can be read backward as well as forward. Thank you to all of you for your wonderful contributions over the past year!

Raumati Beach’s Kevin Boyce: DAMMIT I’M MAD.

Whangaparāoa’s Kaye Bennetts: Draw a Civic award/ I’m a lasagna: hang a salami/ Wets potato? No: not atop stew.

Auckland’s Rex McGregor: Dog stops pup: pup spots God/Rail stops pots. Liar/Aha, Hamilton. Not Lima, haha! /Star poem? Or Romeo prats?

Mackay Thomson of Pukerua Bay: No lemon, no melon.

Nebojsa Joveljic of Papakura: A Santa Lived as a devil at NASA.

Hamilton’s Carolyn Sutherland: A Toyota’s a Toyota/ We panic in a pew.

Roger Mathieson of

Christchurch: Ron, Eton Mistress asserts I’m No Tenor/ Norma is as Selfless as I am Ron/ Rise to Vote Sir/ Murder for a jar of Red Rum/ Now, Sir, A War is Won.

Wallace Knight of Taumarunui: DR AWKWARD.

Wellington’s Jason Morgan: War trap pilsner. No regal gulp. A plug lager, on Ren’s lip; part raw.

Tommy Wilson of Papamoa: Borrow or rob.

But the winner is Ann Love of Nelson: Wonton Madam? Not now.

For the next competition, create alternative definitions for words starting with A and F. Entries, for the prize below, close at midday, Thursday, September 2.

Submissions: listenerwordsworth@ aremedia.co.nz. Please include your name and address and No 2315 in the subject line. Entries may be edited.